Please do yourself a favor, take your time for a nice round ear lobe hole you need to be patient, i am 69 years old i had my ear pierced when i was 15, started to stretch at the young age of 67, i decided that my goal size would be ( 00 ) i did not want to go to big by the time it took me to reach my goal i had bought over 50 pieces of jewelry on the net but then i decided to go ( 13mm ) i have now over 200 pieces of jewelry all of those bought in a little over a year yes you can say that i have got the bug.